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OCR: The History Beer Beer was certainly brewed by the ancient Egyptians pue had almost certainly arrived in Britain by the Neolithic period the builders of Stonehenge undoubtedly have enjoyed a pint or two after hard day's work When the Romans arrived, they tried to introduce wine through their tabernae but the British climate is really better suited for cereal growing So the British carried on with their brewing Beer was brewed in the home, on farms in wayside taverns and later in the great monasteries There was no brewing in breweries that we would recognise today and until refrigeration was introduced in the 1880s beer was only brewed in the colder months from September to April or May The Normans re-introduced wine ano popularised cider but ale was by then the staple drink of the people Na ...